AUTOSMART HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-10-31 (in 5mo)
Last filed for 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-06 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-22
Watchouts
Cash
£14M
+31.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£42M
+24.3% vs 2024
Employees
206
-0.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£11M
+40.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AUTOSMART HOLDINGS LIMITED 2006-09-22 → present
- KEELEX 296 LIMITED 2005-04-22 → 2006-09-22
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-01-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £48,081,836 | £48,519,625 | |
| Operating profit | £8,003,270 | £10,909,848 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,678,335 | £10,807,977 | |
| Net profit | £5,683,226 | £8,535,531 | |
| Cash | £10,663,835 | £14,012,941 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £45,697,861 | £51,313,130 | |
| Net assets | £33,903,904 | £42,130,708 | |
| Equity | £33,903,904 | £42,130,708 | |
| Average employees | 207 | 206 | |
| Wages | £9,154,643 | £9,270,653 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-01-31 | 2025-01-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 16.6% | 22.5% | |
| Net margin | 11.8% | 17.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.5% | 21.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 40.5% | 31.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.11x | 2.53x | |
| Interest cover | 10.24x | 15.37x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors consider it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements and have not identified any material uncertainties to the company's ability to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- AUTOSMART HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Autosmart Group Limited 100%
- Autosmart International Ltd 100%
- Autosmart Australian Ventures Ltd 100%
- Smartab, Hi-Tech Chemicals Aktiebolag 86%
- Sarl Service Autosmart France 100%
Significant events
- “On 10th October 2025, a management buyout was completed. Autosmart Holdings Ltd is now 100% owned by Autosmart Holdings Group Ltd. Existing group borrowings of approximately £5.5 million have been repaid and replaced with the following debt structure.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLANK, Emma | Director | 2025-10-22 | Apr 1969 | British |
| SIDWELLS, Robert Anthony | Director | 2025-10-22 | Jan 1987 | British |
| WOODMAN, Justin Jon | Director | 2025-10-22 | Jun 1972 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, Juli Anita | Secretary | 2006-08-29 | 2010-06-30 |
| KEELEX CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2005-04-22 | 2006-08-29 |
| ASHTON, Christopher Anthony | Director | 2006-08-29 | 2025-12-15 |
| ATKINSON, Sophie | Director | 2006-08-29 | 2026-01-26 |
| BRAIN, Christopher Keith | Director | 2006-08-29 | 2025-12-15 |
| MCFARLANE, Keith Stewart | Director | 2007-06-01 | 2008-06-01 |
| PLANK, Emma | Director | 2007-06-01 | 2008-06-01 |
| WATKINS, Juli Anita | Director | 2006-08-29 | 2010-06-30 |
| KEELEX FORMATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2005-04-22 | 2006-08-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autosmart Holdings Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-10-10 | Active |
| Ms Sophie Atkinson | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-10-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 105 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-09-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-09-09 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-11 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-04 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-09-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-09-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-24 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 17
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-01-31 vs 2024-01-31
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Turnover
+0.9%
£48,081,836 £48,519,625
-
Cash
+31.4%
£10,663,835 £14,012,941
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Net assets
+24.3%
£33,903,904 £42,130,708
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Employees
-0.5%
207 206
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Operating profit
+36.3%
£8,003,270 £10,909,848
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Profit before tax
+40.8%
£7,678,335 £10,807,977
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Wages
+1.3%
£9,154,643 £9,270,653
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers